From 25th August to 12nd September 2025, Jesus College in Cambridge hosted the 7th edition of the Bootcamp, organized by Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in collaboration with international academic and industry partners. The three-week residential program offered participants an intensive, full-immersion experience combining lectures, labs, and project work in a highly interdisciplinary and multicultural environment.
The 2025 edition focused on Black Swan events – rare, unpredictable, high-impact occurrences – and explored how Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things can play a pivotal role in prediction, early detection, and adaptive response to such global challenges.
With a strong emphasis on project-based learning, participants worked in teams to develop innovative solutions to real-world challenges proposed by industry and institutional partners:
- IBM, AI and IoT for hospital blackout management in low-resource settings;
- STMicroelectronics, Edge-based early detection and response systems for natural disaster management;
- DXC Technology, GenAI for One Health: autonomous early warning of emerging pandemics;
- Anglia Ruskin University, Optimizing agricultural water use for sustainable resource management;
- UCBM, Enhancing the rare-disease patient journey.
The Bootcamp gathered undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, and young professionals from across the globe, fostering both technical expertise and transferable skills in a professional, international context.
A particularly meaningful highlight of this edition was the participation of eight students from African Universities, whose involvement was supported and financed by Afya Moja.
